Watch Dogs engine originally built for a racing game

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goal was to create a driving game.

"They were working on a driving engine, working on something. We had the Driver license. This was years ago," Ubisoft North America President Laurent Detoc told IGN. "Then we were thinking, 'no, this is not the way we want to go with a driving game,' so we canceled that and restarted. It's not like Watch Dogs started as Watch Dogs. The Watch Dogs project was initially another game."

Detoc added that some parts of the engine were then incorporated into Watch Dogs after the team reshuffled and added a new creative director. Ubisoft was also working on another driving game at the time – either Driver: San Francisco or The Crew – so it made sense to cancel the project. "What happens is that a game gets canceled, and then you take pieces of that game to make a new one. We could have had another driving engine from another team in another place, and then it would have been used by the Watch Dogs team."

Watch Dogs, which was originally due to launch this year, was pushed back to Spring 2014 in October. The delay contributed to a drop in Ubisoft's stock, though company president Yves Guillemot is adamant "the team needed additional time to realize the game's full potential."

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Source: http://www.joystiq.com/2013/12/27/watch-dogs-engine-originally-built-for-a-racing-game/

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AsboPosted:

From what i have seen this game should do well.

HaloUKPosted:

Is this game coming out on the xbox one?

SIKSPosted:

It would be interesting to see this game being a racing game, the driving would be amazing if it's supposedly a racing game.

ValorPosted:

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Maya interesting, i didnt know this.


Yeah, its going to be cool to see how it turns out


Hopefully this will make it even better.


Should mean the driving feature should be amazing :D

Yeah that what I'm saying, I'm pumped up!!!

ValorPosted:

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Nahh This game looks really fun to play. I can't wait for this.


Same, I already have it pre-ordered


Yah I really cant wait for this game.

I preordered mine as well ! Can't wait

MoBoPosted:

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Maya interesting, i didnt know this.


Yeah, its going to be cool to see how it turns out


Hopefully this will make it even better.


Should mean the driving feature should be amazing :D

HonkPosted:

Luxe
Maya interesting, i didnt know this.


Yeah, its going to be cool to see how it turns out


Hopefully this will make it even better.

HonkPosted:

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Katsumi
Solve This is going to be my top played game.


Hopefully it will turn out to be great once released, i will definitely be picking it up


Me too, and im sure it will be great


Well so far this game looks amazing.

HonkPosted:

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VANAGON Driving looks cool, weird how that was what it was supposed to be in the first place though.


Yeah, maybe that will make it even better


Yah the driving in this game should be really good.

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j8ke probably going to play this so much


I will play it all the time for sure


This will probably be my new favorite game.